Wildlife footage: 2016-2018 (in progress)
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A Yearling Bear Cub Climbs an Apple Tree (9/29/18)
Moose during Mating Season (9/24/18)
The Wonder of Watching Bears Swim (9/22/18)
Adventures of a Yearling Bear Cub (Part 2) (9/17/18)
Bear Buddies Playing (9/15/18)
A cute bear cub with a unique fur style (9/9/18)
Wild Caturday (9/8/18)
A Black Bear Sow Takes a Mellow Swim (9/3/18)
Our Favorite Sow Takes another Bath (8/27/18)
Three Moose Vie for a Water Hole (8/20/18)
A Moose Trio Play like Kids in a Pond (8/13/18)
Caturday: The Mountain Lions are still Thirsty (8/11/18)
Bears Swim, Eat Ants, and Mark Trees at this time of year (8/6/18)
Bathing Black Bear Beauty (8/4/18)
Young Bears Learning to Tree Dance (7/30/18)
Thirsty Mountain Lions Seeking Water (7/28/18)
Bears and moose go for swims (7/23/18)
Bathing Bear Time of Year (7/21/18)
A new bear comes to our Neck of the Woods (7/16/18)
Adventures of Tiny the Black Bear (7/9/18)
An amorous mountain lion pair (7/7/18)
Bear mating season reaches a peak (7/2/18)
Deer fawn and mountain lion kittens (6/30/18)
Tiny the black bear hanging out with sow(s) (6/25/18)
A mother mountain lion and her two kittens (6/23/18)
A Mama Moose and her New Calf (6/18/18)
Bobcat and mountain lion rolling in bear scent (6/16/18)
Courting Bears (6/11/18)
A mountain lion takes on my trail cam (6/9/18)
A bear pair make cubs (6/4/18)
Meeting moose on our morning ride (5/28/18)
Drama within the elk herd (5/21/18)
Bears sniffing and marking (5/14/18)
A mountain lion stroll in daylight (5/7/18)
Closeups of a mountain lion kitten (4/30/18)
Mountain Lions and bobcats mark territory (4/23/18)
Bears are awake and active!!! (4/16/18)
Two Yrs Ago: Bear cubs left the den for the first time (4/9/18)
Life with an elk herd nearby (3/26/18)
Fox in a Bear Den with Sow and Cubs (3/19/18)
Bold Lions out in Daylight (3/12/18)
Mountain Lion and Red Fox Find Food in Wintertime (3/5/18)
Moose in Winter - Watch out for Thin Ice (2/26/18)
A mountain lion marking spot (2/20/18)
Mountain Lions! (2/12/18)
Memories of a bear sow giving birth in a den (2/5/18)
Dangers for a coyote taking on a mountain lion (1/29/18)
A mating pair of mountain lions relaxes (1/23/18)
A moose meeting (1/19/18)
A bobcat family plays together (1/15/18)
Mountain Lion and Coyotes Vie for a Meal - Part 2 (1/8/18)
Mountain Lion & Coyotes vie for a Meal - Part 1 (1/2/18)
Mountain Lion Kittens! (12/26/17)
A Mountain Lion Stalks Prey (12/18/17)
Bull Moose pair has a small fight (12/11/17)
A bull moose pair and a trail camera (12/4/17)
Another Brawny Mountain Lion on Patrol (11/27/17)
Moose Selfie and Camera "Attack" (11/20/17)
Huge Brawny Mountain Lion Marks His Territory (11/13/17)
Mountain lions Everywhere (11/6/17)
Mountain lions and kittens on the prowl (10/31/17)
Battle of the elk rut, including sounds (10/26/17)
Moose, hawk, and pygmy owl at a water hole (10/23/17)
Scenes from the Elk Rut (10/19/17)
Big male bears of autumn in action (10/16/17)
Moose and bears at ponds (10/9/17)
A bobcat's prey escapes (10/2/17)
Mother Bear and Cub (9/25/17)
Bear Cub Acrobatics (9/18/17)
Deer, fawns, and mountain lions (9/10/17)
A Bear Digs up an Ant Hill (9/4/17)
Mama Bear and her Huge Cub Visit Water Holes (8/28/17)
Silly Tree Marking by Bears (8/21/17)
A Bear Selfie (8/19/17)
A young bear takes a long soak (8/14/17)
Crazy Escapades of a Bear Cub (7/31/17)
Black bear on the move and tree marking (7/31/17)
Bear mother and cub bathing (7/25/17)
A Thirsty and Limping Mountain Lion (7/17/17)
Mountain Lion at a Water Hole (7/10/17)
Tiny the Black Bear Injured (6/26/17)
Bear mother and cub visit water holes (6/19/17)
Bear Mother and tiny cub on the move (6/10/17)
Blondie the Black Bear (6/1/17)
A Black Bear Duel and Courtship (5/31/17)
Bandit the Black Bear (5/26/17)
Den Footage: Nearing the end of a bear's family in their den (5/22/17)
A mountain lion passes near our house (5/13/17)
Bandit the black bear kills my trail camera (5/9/17)
A Bear who earned the name "Bandit" (5/8/17)
Milton the Black Bear Wakes Up! (5/4/17)
Wildlife Parade past a cam (4/10/17)
Mountain lion and scavengers at elk carcass (2/6/17)
Anniversary of bear cub birth (1/31/17)
Saga of mountain lions and their GPS Collars (1/26/17)
A curious mountain lion (1/9/17)
Last bear of 2016 (12/30/16)
More Mountain lion action at an elk carcass (12/22/16)
A mountain lion works on his prey (12/19/16)
A mountain lion kills an elk (12/17/16)
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Dawn light
The world was veiled in darkness as I pedaled onto the trails. Dawn in the forest is the animals' time but they let me pass through peacefully. A few mule deer, silhouetted against the purple sky, watched me as I rolled past. The sun began to rise behind bare aspen trees. As I rode through the forest, over ridges, and through gulches, the sky slowly morphed from black to eggshell blue. The photos below show the same mountain from different places on my ride at 6:57, 7:02, 7:28, and 8:13 AM. I also love the contrasts of shadows and sunlight that are unique to early mornings. Below, when I entered 'Lion's Gulch', it looked like I was plunging into a dark and spooky tunnel. The trail itself was almost invisible but the red rock at the top of the south-facing wall glowed from the rising sun. After winding my way up the gulch, the sun warmed my back, and I cast a long shadow. I coasted home in full sunlight and took the two younger pups for a short ride up S's trail. The sunlight filtered through the dense Lodgepole Pine Forest. The dogs ran like the wind.
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